Would you take the brides name

[PaulStat]

So it's tradition for the woman to take the mans surname, but if your wife to be wanted you to either double barrel or change your surname completely would you?

 

[antijoke]

Depends what my surname/first name was.

 

[shauncr91]

Would depend on their second name.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Depends if they put out every night *achortle chortle*

 

[Wyrdo]

So it's tradition for the woman to take the mans surname, but if your wife to be wanted you to either double barrel or change your surname completely would you?

Don't be daft.

 

[uber soldat]

If my surname was "Smelly" or "Ramsbottom" then yes (especially if it was a combination of the 2 ) but as it isn't then no

 

[Mat]

If her surname was Arse or something, or anything that rhymed with Mat; unlikely.

 

[mjer1984]

No i wouldn't she should change her name.

A friend of mine changed his name when he got married as his father ran away when he was a child so his surname was not important to him.

 

[Nix]

Nope.

 

[Egon]

I guess it depends on the situation, as people have pointed out already. Personally I wouldn't have wanted to change my name.

 

[Jambo]

My initial reaction was no but if it was a cool name then I might. Selfish reasons!

 

[Skidder]

So it's tradition for the woman to take the mans surname, but if your wife to be wanted you to either double barrel or change your surname completely would you?

No I wouldn't but I do know someone who did this. A (to all intents and purposes) gay man, marrying into a very wealthy and prominent family, acting as a reverse-beard (is this a mirkin?) for a female heiress.

 

[Streeteh]

Depends on the surname tbh, mines bland and boring, if i married say 'Julia Awesomepants' for example i would most certainly take the surname.

 

[Greenlizard0]

No I wouldn't but I do know someone who did this. A (to all intents and purposes) gay man, marrying into a very wealthy and prominent family, acting as a reverse-beard (is this a mirkin?) for a female heiress.

What the?

 

[ScarySquirrel]

No, I wouldn't change it and I wouldn't double-barrel it. She can **** off!

 

[Skidder]

What the?

what?

A beard is usually a woman who marries a gay man to make him look manly - ie not gay. Real men have beards, like me.

 

[RDM]

I didn't but then my wife was happy with my surname. However it is only a name so if it really mattered to my other half then I would have changed it quite happily. My surname was more interesting than hers though so she was happy to swap.

 

[Saytan]

i can think of one circumstance where i'd consider this

if she's the last of her family line, and her name will die without it, and it really means a lot to her.

 

[Tom0]

what?

A beard is usually a woman who marries a gay man to make him look manly - ie not gay. Real men have beards, like me.

So a "reverse-beard" is a man that marries a gay woman to make her look feminine?

 

[platypus]

I'd be up for a double barrel surname, sounds cool.

Depends what her name is mind.